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Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 21:12:38 -0500
From: Bob Sheck <bobsheck@...>
To: EntertainmentElectricity@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [EntertainmentElectricity] 120VAC over microphone cable?!?

At 06:48 PM 3/8/2008, Rick Malone wrote:

It's in the same category as those mis-guided folks that put Edison
connectors on speaker lines for "convenience".



Oh, does THIS bring back a rather unpleasant memory! I vividly remember as a
young pup stringing this cord around the front of house for speakers, and
the knucklehead sound guy plugged his end into an AC outlet while I had the
other (male) end in my palm, reaching around the back of a speaker to plug
it up~ (or were *both* ends male? I can't remember, this was back in the mid
60's.

I think the game plan on this was he would plug his end into the AC, and I
was sposed to plug my end onto a test lamp to insure the cable was good-
being a young, junior type, I went along (even though I didn't think it was
a good idea, but I was sooo young and impressionable back then. . .) maybe I
got one step ahead in the process.

Bob Sheck (another geezer techaziod)